Senior Director, Internal Audit

About this role

At Warner Music Group, we’re a global collective of music makers and music lovers, tech innovators and inspired entrepreneurs, game-changing creatives and passionate team members. Here, we turn dreams into stardom and audiences into fans. We are guided by three core values that underpin everything we do across all our diverse businesses: 

• Curiosity : We do our best work when we’re immersing ourselves in culture and breaking through barriers. Curiosity is the driving force behind creativity and ingenuity. It fuels innovation, and innovation is the key to our future. 

• Collaboration : Making music and bringing it to the world is all about the power of originality amplified by teamwork. A great idea, like a great song, travels globally. We ignite passions and build connections across our diverse community of artists, songwriters, partners, and fans.

• Commitment : We pursue excellence for our team and our talent. Everything in music starts with a leap into the unknown, and we’re committed to keeping the faith, acting with integrity, and delivering on our promises.

WMG is home to a wide range of artists, musicians, and songwriters that fuel our success. That is why we are committed to creating a work environment that actively values, appreciates, and respects everyone.  We encourage applications from people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences.

Consider a career at WMG and get the best of both worlds – an innovative global music company that retains the creative spirit of a nimble independent.   A little bit about our team: The Warner Music Group Internal Audit vision is to provide high quality assurance and advisory services in a dynamic, innovative, and impactful way.  Our work primarily includes SOX audits, as well as risk management projects and proactive involvement in critical initiatives for the business such as major system implementations, process transformation, and acquisitions. The Internal Audit department partners with the business to focus on the most important risks and issues facing the organization and delivers results that will make the biggest positive impact; we strive to be valuable business advisors that provide important insights and solutions.  We continuously look for ways to improve our audit and risk management processes and leverage technology to improve our impact.  Our success is measured by the amount of internal control improvement, risk mitigation and overall positive change that we drive across the organization.

Your role: We are seeking an Internal Audit Senior Director to drive the execution of our audit services, with a focus on SOX projects adhering to control standards required for a public company.  In this role, you will guide our internal and co-sourced audit teams in providing objective assurance and advisory services that mitigate risk and improve controls and compliance across our global organization.  Additionally, you will provide guidance and support the business with respect to global finance transformation initiatives, with a focus on the impact to processes, risks, controls, and how we complete our audits. The Senior Director, Internal Audit will report to the Senior Vice President, Internal Audit and Risk Management and will play a key role in leading risk assessments and overseeing the execution of engagements aligned with the audit plan, serving as a trusted advisor to the team. This role requires a high-caliber individual with extensive accounting, auditing, and SOX experience in companies of similar size and complexity.  The ideal candidate will possess excellent interpersonal and project management skills, a strong work ethic, and the ability to build relationships and influence decision making at a senior level.

Here you’ll get to: • Contribute to the design and implementation of agile internal audit processes, methodology, and ongoing process improvements with a focus on streamlining the work we do

• Be a leader across internal audit projects over WMG’s global companies, providing support and guidance to audit teams on these engagements

• Monitor status of audit engagements from planning through reporting, driving progress to meet deadlines and providing updates to the SVP

• Review key internal audit workpapers, including planning documents, control testing, and audit reports, to ensure clear identification of risks and issues

• Critically evaluate audit issues identified including assessment of the issue/root cause and financial statement impact

• Communicate audit findings in a timely and collaborate with process owners to develop creative, yet practical, recommendations to remediate control deficiencies

• Lead the follow-up and reporting of internal audit findings until deficiencies are remediated

• Liaise with business and finance leadership as well as our external auditor and communicate status of key projects and initiatives, and audit results

• Oversee and lead special projects and other tasks as assigned by the SVP

• Establish and maintain excellent relationships within the team and with business stakeholders

• Educate business stakeholders on control expectations and best practices for quality-driven and sustainable SOX results for a public company

• Collaborate with the business to drive actions that are pragmatic and achievable

• Identify themes, trends, and emerging risks for escalation and communication to senior leadership

• Manage internal audit staff development, training, and career planning

• Be a change agent to lead and effect desired change throughout the organization

About you: • A Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance

• 10+ years of overall experience that includes Big 4 external and/or internal audit

• A minimum of 5 years of experience managing and developing teams

• Experience with SAP S/4 HANA, HFM, and the Google suite of applications

• Licensed CPA

We’d love it if you also: • Demonstrate a proficient understanding of US GAAP, COSO framework, Sarbanes-Oxley

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